Wisconsin Statutes 185.034 – Definitions applicable to indemnification and insurance provisions
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Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 185.034
- Association: includes both cooperatives and foreign cooperatives. See Wisconsin Statutes 185.01
- Cooperative: means an association incorporated under this chapter. See Wisconsin Statutes 185.01
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- Following: when used by way of reference to any statute section, means the section next following that in which the reference is made. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- Member: means a person who has been qualified and accepted for membership in an association. See Wisconsin Statutes 185.01
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: includes all partnerships, associations and bodies politic or corporate. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- Personal representative: means a person, however denominated, who is authorized to administer a decedent's estate. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- State: when applied to states of the United States, includes the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the several territories organized by Congress. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(1) “Cooperative” means a domestic cooperative and any domestic or foreign predecessor of a domestic cooperative where the predecessor cooperative’s existence ceased upon the consummation of a merger or other transaction.
(2) “Director or officer” means any of the following:
(a) A natural person who is or was a director or officer of a cooperative.
(b) A natural person who, while a director or officer of a cooperative, is or was serving at the cooperative’s request as a director, officer, partner, trustee, member of any governing or decision-making committee, manager, employee or agent of an association, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.
(c) A natural person who, while a director or officer of a cooperative, is or was serving an employee benefit plan because his or her duties to the cooperative also imposed duties on, or otherwise involved services by, the person to the plan or to participants in or beneficiaries of the plan.
(d) A natural person who is or was the chief executive, managerial employee of a cooperative, regardless of the person’s title.
(e) Unless the context requires otherwise, the estate or personal representative of a director or officer.
(3) “Expenses” include fees, costs, charges, disbursements, attorney fees and any other expenses incurred in connection with a proceeding.
(4) “Liability” includes the obligation to pay a judgment, settlement, forfeiture, or fine, including any excise tax assessed with respect to an employee benefit plan, plus costs, fees, and surcharges imposed under ch. 814, and reasonable expenses.
(5) “Party” means a natural person who was or is, or who is threatened to be made, a named defendant or respondent in a proceeding.
(6) “Proceeding” means any threatened, pending or completed civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit, arbitration or other proceeding, whether formal or informal, which involves foreign, federal, state or local law and which is brought by or in the right of the cooperative or by any other person.